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Forest Resources Map, Northeastern Wisconsin

Date: 1947
Description: This map shows various types of forests, nurseries, state fish hatcheries, major wood-using industries, camp & picnic grounds, fire towers, ranger stations...
Photograph

R-120 Truck with Pickup Body

Date: 1953
Description: R-120 truck with pickup body parked outdoors. A man is loading or unloading the truck in front of the open door. Above the door is a sign that reads: "Toll...
Photograph

Floral Delivery Truck

Date: 07 05 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a floral delivery truck. The driver is looking back towards men loading plants into the back of the truck. The sig...
Photograph

Young Trees

Date: 1939
Description: Described on the reverse of the print as, "Four to five year old evergreen trees," young trees grow in neat rows beneath overhead irrigation pipes. The gr...
Photograph

Packing Young Trees

Date: 04 1938
Description: Working at a counter, an unidentified man ties twine around a burlap-wrapped bundle of small everygreen trees while another man looks on. A typed caption...
Photograph

Griffith State Nursery

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ...
Photograph

Seeding Trees

Date: 04 1938
Description: Two men are pushing an implement between guide ropes at the Central (now Griffith) State Nursery. The description on the reverse of the photograph explains...
Photograph

Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Two nursery employees, Florance Dohm and Angeline Magnasco, examining a blooming plant among the tables full of blooming lilies ready for delivery inside a...
Photograph

Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Faye Jorgensen is admiring the tall stems and white blossoms of the traditional Easter lily inside a greenhouse.
Photograph

Trout Lake Nursery

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Description: Panoramic view of the nursery at Trout Lake. In the center are three men and a dog standing among seedlings in the nursery. There is a water tower and two ...
Photograph

Trout Lake Nursery

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Description: Elevated view of the nursery. Men are standing among the plantings. The barn is on the right.
Photograph

Man with State Forestry Headquarters Sign

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Description: A man is standing outdoors next to a sign that reads: "Northern State Forest, State Forest Headquarters, District Forest Ranger, State Forest Nursery. Wisc...
Photograph

Man in front of Lodge at Trout Lake

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Description: A man wearing a coat, necktie and cap is standing at the top of wood and slab stone steps with rustic railing at an entrance to the lodge at Trout Lake. A ...
Postcard

Man Working at Trout Lake

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Description: A man is crouching and working on plantings at the nursery. A fence is in the background.
Postcard

Trout Lake Nursery?

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Description: View across field of small trees, perhaps at Trout Lake. There are small buildings in the background.
Postcard

Barn at Trout Lake

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Description: View towards front of a barn at Trout Lake. There is a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

Trout Lake Headquarters

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Description: Trout Lake Headquarters at completion.
Postcard

Nursery; Wis. State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake

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Description: View of the nursery. There is a fence along the side of the field in the background, and trees beyond. Caption reads: "Nursery; Wis. State Forest Reserve, ...
Postcard

Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Schwartz Bros. Ginseng Garden." On reverse it reads: "A small corner in our Ginseng Garden, showing our five-year-old plants. From fo...

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